Invaluable Teacher Resources Available through the 2008 We the People Bookshelf Grant Published by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
Lincoln Resource Book
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CD-ROM printable electronic version of the Lincoln resource book
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DVD Historians on Record, containing eight videotaped lectures by major historians. (* winner of the Lincoln Prize)
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Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power
Richard J. Carwardine* Rhodes Professor of American History, St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford
Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
Douglas L. Wilson* C-Director of the Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College
Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President
Harold Holzer Co-Chair of the United States Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam
James M. McPherson* George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History, Princeton University
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America
Allen C. Guelzo* Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Professor of History, Gettysburg College
The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words
Ronald C. White, Jr. Professor of American Intellectual and Religious History, San Francisco Theological Seminary
Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War
R.J.M. Blackett Andrew Jackson Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
David W. Blight* Class of 1954 Professor of American History, Yale University
DVD Decoding Lincoln's Legacy, a production of the History Channel, with four renowned historians exploring what Lincoln's words and strategies reveal about his greatness as President and his legacy for all Americans.
Available through checkout; Also each lecture listed individually on Emerson High School VOD.
54th Massachusetts Regiment
James O. Horton, Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History George Washington University
Lincoln's House Divided Speech
Richard Norton Smith
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Speech
David W. Blight Class of 1954 Professor of American History Yale University
The Emancipation Proclamation
Doris Keans Goodwin Author, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address
David W. Blight, James O. Horton, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Richard Norton Smith
Interactive CD-ROM Mr. Lincoln's War: Selected Letters, Photographs & Songs. Includes 14 narrated Civil War letters, over 60 photographs, 12 songs, and over 20 pages of illustrated, printable text authorized for classroom use.
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In Emerson High School Front Hall Display:
Posters of Lincoln, Frederick Douglas, the Emancipation Proclamation, a poster sized timeline of major dates and events, and much more.
The Abraham Lincoln Association: The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
Suggested Reading
Blight, David. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Belknap Press, 2002.
Carwardine, Richard. Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power. Vintage, 2007.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Simon & Schuster, 2006.
Guelzo, Allen C. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America. Simon & Shuster, 2005.
Lehrman, Lewis. Lincoln at Peoria. Stackpole Books, 2008
Wills, Gary. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America. Simon & Shuster, 1993.
Wilson, Douglas L. Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln. Knopf, 1998.
The Following Titles Were Made Available Through The 2008 We The People Bookshelf Grant to the Emerson School District:
Kindergarten - 3 The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco Pink Y Say by Patricia Polacco (translated by Alejandra Lopez Varela)
Grades 4-6 Saturnalia by Paul Fleischman Give Me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence by Russell Freedman Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom by Virginia Hamilton Lyddie by Katherine Paterson Lyddie by Katherine Paterson (translated by Rosa Benavides)
Grades 7-8 Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman Abraham Lincoln the Writer: A Treasury of His Greatest Speeches and Letters ed. by Harold Holzer Breaking Through by Francisco Jiménez Senderos Fronterizos: Breaking Through Spanish Edition by Francisco Jiménez
Grades 9-12 Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S. Bober That All People May Be One People, Send Rain to Wash the Face of the Earth by Nez Perce Chief Joseph Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Flores Para Algernon by Daniel Keyes (translated by Paz Barroso) Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography by William Lee Miller Amistad: A Novel by David Pesc
Abraham Lincoln
2008 We the People Bookshelf Grant
Published by the Gilder Lehrman
Institute of American History.
of the Lincoln resource book
containing eight videotaped lectures
by major historians.
(* winner of the Lincoln Prize)
Also each lecture listed individually
on Emerson High School VOD.
Rhodes Professor of American History,
St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford
The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
C-Director of the Lincoln Studies Center,
Knox College
The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President
Co-Chair of the United States Lincoln
Bicentennial Commission
George Henry Davis '86 Professor
Emeritus of United States History,
Princeton University
The End of Slavery in America
Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era
and Professor of History, Gettysburg College
A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words
Professor of American Intellectual
and Religious History,
San Francisco Theological Seminary
Andrew Jackson Professor of History,
Vanderbilt University
The Civil War in American Memory
Class of 1954 Professor of American History,
Yale University
a production of the History Channel,
with four renowned historians
exploring what Lincoln's words and
strategies reveal about his greatness
as President and his legacy for all Americans.
Also each lecture listed individually
on Emerson High School VOD.
Professor of American Studies and History
George Washington University
Class of 1954 Professor of American History
Yale University
Author, Team of Rivals:
The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Selected Letters, Photographs & Songs.
Includes 14 narrated Civil War letters,
over 60 photographs, 12 songs, and
over 20 pages of illustrated, printable
text authorized for classroom use.
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The Abraham Lincoln Association: The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
The Following Titles Were Made Available Through The
2008 We The People Bookshelf Grant to the Emerson School District:
The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
Pink Y Say by Patricia Polacco (translated by Alejandra Lopez Varela)
Saturnalia by Paul Fleischman
Give Me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence by Russell Freedman
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom by Virginia Hamilton
Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
Lyddie by Katherine Paterson (translated by Rosa Benavides)
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman
Abraham Lincoln the Writer: A Treasury of His Greatest Speeches and Letters ed. by Harold Holzer
Breaking Through by Francisco Jiménez
Senderos Fronterizos: Breaking Through Spanish Edition by Francisco Jiménez
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S. Bober
That All People May Be One People, Send Rain to Wash the Face of the Earth by Nez Perce Chief Joseph
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Flores Para Algernon by Daniel Keyes (translated by Paz Barroso)
Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography by William Lee Miller
Amistad: A Novel by David Pesc